Simple Ways Wednesdays – Episode 5

Posted by A. Caleb Hartley on August 20th, 2008 filed in Simple Ways, flea, pet

Make your own flea tonic

If you have pets, you have fleas. If you have fleas, you probably are trying to rid yourself of them. I am.

So how do you do so without using toxic poisons or fluids or nasty smelling flea collars that probably do nearly as much harm to your pet as they do to your pet’s fleas?

Try this:

Lemon Flea Tonic

Thinly slice a whole lemon, including the peel.

Add the sliced lemon to 1 pint of boiling water.

Let steep overnight (don’t let it boil overnight, just steep – once you have added the lemon to the boiling water, you can turn the stovetop off).

The next day, strain out the lemon pieces and pour the liquid into a spray bottle to apply it. You can use it as often as necessary, but most likely once a day will be more than enough.

My wife and I will be trying this with our dog this weekend – we’ll let you all know how it works!

Namaste,
A. Caleb Hartley

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Have you used this recipe before? How did it work? Do you have other natural solutions for fleas? Let us know in the comments!

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